Q. Please look at this entry made on on a blog. I'd be curious of your impression:
It was Wednesday, September 29th and hunting season (for deer) in Ohio was just a 4 days old. The day started cool and damp then became a beautiful, warm day with a nice sunset. Jan was about to go hunting and her method of hunting consisted of waiting and watching while being seated in a “tree stand.” Her seat is in the northwestern corner of a many-acre woods that is surrounded by large planted fields and low density residential areas. Her seat faces the east and is surrounded on all sides by trees. (Full post by Jan, http://www.brumac.mysite.com/JANs_Phenomenon/JANs_Phenomenon.htm)
Jan had a strange experience while in the trees in the late afternoon and evening.
She went to her tree stand at about 5:30 and sat. A squirrel was dropping nut pieces on her head and animals, birds and crickets were moving and making noise. To occupy her time she was “texting” with her phone (a means of silent communication). At about 6:21 PM she decided to photograph herself in the tree stand. She was facing east with the sun at her back. She held the camera above and to her left. The sun was behind her, low in the west, with the light filtering through the tree branches. She took the first photo with the camera a bit above her head and to her left so she could get a photo looking down past her to the ground.
Suddenly the woods went quiet. Noise stopped. The silence was “weird.” It so surprised and unnerved her that she wrote a text message to her friend (thereby documenting this event):
Something is wrong. The woods just went to a dead silence. No squirrels, no birds, no crickets. Is odd! (6:23 PM EDT)
She thought a coyote or maybe a black panther or some predator animal caused the quiet as she knows (as hunters know) that when a predator such as a bear, for example, enters an area the other animals tend to become quiet. Then she became aware that a weird visual “effect” was moving rightward across her field of view at an apparent distance of maybe fifteen to twenty feet. She described it as if looking through "saran wrap." Perhaps a more apt comparison would be like looking at a mirage above a hot road. She compared this distortion of the scene as being somewhat like the effect of the invisible creature in the PREDATOR movie! This distortion was at a higher altitude than her, perhaps about 25 ft above the ground.. She took her glasses off and rubbed her right eye thinking at first she had a floater (a mote in the eye). But after rubbing it was still there and not a floater.
As she recalls it, she held the camera in her right hand, about a foot and a half from her face (so that the scene in the viewing screen would be in focus for her eyes), pointed the camera in the direction of the distortion and took a picture. As she recalls it the picture was taken immediately after the distortion disappeared. The picture should show the nearby trees. That’s not what the picture shows (see to the right)!
What did she see and what happened in the woods?
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